LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Norwegian Minesweeper No. 382 (1)
MAY 7TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. The Norwegian minesweeper No.
382 had been reported blown up by a mine fifteen miles off Berry Head, but no survivors were found. The Salcombe life-boat put out at midnight on the 7th...
AT A STORM'S MERCY
Caught in the path of Storm Abigail, the crew of a broken-down shellfish trawler needed RNLI volunteers to come to their aid – quickly
As the storm passed over them on 12 November 2015, the 12 men onboard trawlers Genesis...
Category: Articles
Withdrawn English Coinage Can Mean Revenue for the Life-Boat Service the Coins Including Some Silver Date from Left to Right (Top) 194419411939 18761898 1940 1
Withdrawn English coinage can mean revenue for the life-boat service. The coins, including some silver, date from left to right (top) 1944,1941,1939, 1876,1898, 1940, 1914 and 1940. The 1940 half-crown is a good specimen.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats in China
The RNLI has signed a new deal with the ChinaRescue and Salvage Bureau (CRS).
The deal builds on the agreement that has been in place between the two organisations for the past 5 years, which saw 20 ex-RNLI lifeboats make...
Category: Articles
Marine Architecture at the Inventions Exhibition
THIS department of the Exhibition is, from the small number of exhibits dis- played in it, hardly calculated to advance the knowledge of the general observer, in the vast changes that have taken place in the form of both fighting and mer-...
Category: Articles
Baby Emu Tries to Snatch Back the Cheque for £580 He and Rod Hull Have Just Handed Over to Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer Rnli at Bentalls Kingston-U
Baby Emu tries to snatch back the cheque for £580 he and Rod Hull have just handed over to Ray Kipling, deputy public relations officer, RNLI, at Bentalls, Kingston-upon- Thames. The money was raised by Emu's country-wide promotion... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bronze Medal Service at Appledore
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 46 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1935 64,048 Bronze Medal Service at Appledore.
ON the...
Category: Services
Lacon's Safety Plan for Lowering a Ship's Boats at Sea
WHILST we are doing all in our power to guard our coasts with life-boats ready to save life in the event of a vessel being stranded on our shores, we must not lose sight of the fact that the greatest loss of life among our own countrymen,...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 8.—The Dover Life-Boat for the Help of Aeroplanes
AT Dover is stationed the only motor life-boat of this type, specially designed for the special conditions of the Straits, across which there is not only the heavy passenger steamer traffic, but a con- siderable daily traffic by aeroplanes,...
Category: Articles
16 Year-Old Boy Helps to Save Life-Boat
Ox the morning of the 2nd of Novem- ber, 1955, the Aldeburgh no. 1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched for a routine exercise. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, and there was a moderate swell.
The life-boat returned...
Category: Services